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Fri, May 18, 2012
Thursday, 17 May 2012
The Government has nominated five new Judges for appointment by the President to the High Court (two) and to the Distric...
Thursday, 17 May 2012
There is not a city, town or village that has not witnessed the tragedy of suicide or seen the devastation caused to fam...
Thursday, 17 May 2012
Plans to construct a new radio telescope and install the world's most advanced broadband technology in Birr, valued at o...
Thursday, 17 May 2012
IF you like a story with a happy ending, this one is for you. But beware. It also is a cautionary tale because it illumi...
Thursday, 3 May 2012
The much anticipated €4million development at Nenagh Hospital is to get underway this month. The work includes the...
Thursday, 26 April 2012
Roscrea and Tipperary diaspora right across the world are one of the target audiences for a new business investment driv...
Thursday, 26 April 2012
A delegation of Finnish politicians and the Finnish Ambassador to Ireland stopped off in Moneygall last week to see firs...
Thursday, 26 April 2012
The fourth annual Thomas MacDonagh Weekend takes place in Cloughjordan from 4th to 7th May. Once again they honour the p...
Thursday, 26 April 2012
Grainne Egan from Shinrone will be embarking on a marvellous experience this summer when she travels to distant, exotic ...
Thursday, 19 April 2012
Local historian, bibliophile and social campaigner George Cunningham was honoured during a moving event in Mount St Jose...
Thursday, 19 April 2012
Gavin Duffy from RTE's Dragons's Den has taken a giant leap and is investing 30,000 Euro in First Steps Forever, a beaut...
Thursday, 19 April 2012
STRIKE action by hundreds of Bord na Mona workers in Offaly looks likely to be avoided after the company made them anoth...
Thursday, 19 April 2012
NEARLY a year on from the historic visit of United States President Barack Obama to Moneygall, one of those who played a...
Thursday, 12 April 2012
Minister for Education and Skills, Ruairí Quinn recently appointed 37 members to the Teaching Council, including one mem...
Thursday, 12 April 2012
AFTER a successful run in its home base High Street Drama Group takes its fine production of John Murphy's acclaimed pla...
Thursday, 12 April 2012
In all the understandable kerfuffle about the Titanic and the centenary of its sinking next Sunday (by date) April 15th ...
Thursday, 12 April 2012
OFFALY County Council has thanked people in each household who have paid the Household Charge and said they are encourag...
Thursday, 5 April 2012
Speaking at the Fine Gael Ard Fheis last Saturday, local TD Noel Coonan said it is vital that every effort is made to re...
Thursday, 5 April 2012
'What is worst of woes that wait on age? That stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from...
Thursday, 5 April 2012
There is still no light at the end of the tunnel for Shannon Oaks Hotel in Portumna, once a thriving enterprise and a hu...
Thursday, 5 April 2012
A bogus report on a social networking site last week caused panic amongst women in Roscrea. Users of the website were ur...
Thursday, 29 March 2012
Dom Eamon Fitzgerald ocso, the first Irishman to become Abbot General of the Cistercian Order will open the 50th Roscrea...
Thursday, 29 March 2012
A very heated debate in Roscrea over the downgrading of services in the town's Dean Maxwell Nursing Home saw the three N...
Thursday, 22 March 2012
Roscrea's 34th consecutive St. Patrick's Day Parade proved to be a celebration of the new and old with a truly internati...
Thursday, 22 March 2012
St. Patrick's Day in Washington was very much a family affair this year as President Obama and his Moneygall cousins wer...
Thursday, 8 March 2012
The old Chinese proverb "A journey of 1,000 miles begins with a first step" was quoted at "The People's Rally" in Roscre...
Thursday, 8 March 2012
Offaly will be well represented at the St. Patrick's Day celebrations in the United States this year when well-known Mon...
Thursday, 8 March 2012
Deputy Michael Lowry has welcomed the fact that two new surgical suites for Nenagh General Hospital are now nearing the ...
Thursday, 8 March 2012
A Birr farmer and his brother made a remarkable philanthropic gesture towards Minister for Health James Reilly this week...
Thursday, 1 March 2012
There is a growing swell of support for the Rally in Roscrea on this coming Saturday morning, which is calling for the r...
Thursday, 1 March 2012
The Mrs Quin's Charity shops have been a familiar sight in cities and towns in the Midlands in the 14 years they have be...
Thursday, 1 March 2012
LOCAL councillor Sinead Dooley is encouraging any household who currently does not have a smoke alarm in their home to a...
Thursday, 1 March 2012
Six Offaly farmers, including a 17 year-old budding farming entrepreneur shared the prizes and 7,000 in prize money at t...
Thursday, 23 February 2012
A ballad group from Gallen Community School, representing Ferbane GAA, won the outright title of All Ireland champions i...
Thursday, 23 February 2012
Local artisan food producers will be showcasing their wares on home turf next weekend when they participate in A Taste o...
Thursday, 23 February 2012
It had long been known it was going to happen but it became official last week when the Government announced that the FA...
Thursday, 23 February 2012
A petition to change the rules in the new section of Birr's Clongohill Cemetery has been mounted by a mother who lost he...
Thursday, 16 February 2012
The headquarters of Birr based cancer support group Dóchas was attacked by vandals earlier this week in what appears to ...
Thursday, 16 February 2012
Birr Community Responder Group, who are fundraising to provide a defibrillator in the town, will hold a bag collection i...
Thursday, 16 February 2012
Birr Gardai are investigating the theft of two expensive Rolex watches and a Cartier watch, as well as cash in several f...
Thursday, 16 February 2012
With fears surrounding the future of elderly care facilities across North Tipperary, the people of Roscrea are being ask...
Thursday, 9 February 2012
Mercy Primary School for girls in Birr celebrated its first ever Grandparents Day last week, when doting grandparents an...
Thursday, 9 February 2012
Last weekend at Holiday World Dublin, Mid Ireland Tourism displayed their new 2012 Visitors Guide for the first time pro...
Thursday, 9 February 2012
A remarkably opulent home steeped in heritage from a monastic past went up for grabs in Offaly this week, priced just be...
Thursday, 2 February 2012
REIGNING Offaly Rose Brianna Connaughton has urged women in the county to consider entering the 2012 Rose of Tralee Inte...
Thursday, 2 February 2012
Tributes to Judge Mary Martin, who has announced her retirement, will be paid by Court staff and members of the legal pr...
Thursday, 2 February 2012
Waterways Ireland has opened the application process for Extended Term Serviced Mooring Licences at Shannon Harbour, Co ...
Thursday, 2 February 2012
Discover Science and Engineering is calling for all Offaly primary schools to get involved with Greenwave 2012, the mass...
Thursday, 26 January 2012
There are very few people in Offaly or North Tipperary who did not know Fr Frank Bergin and news of his passing, when it...
Thursday, 26 January 2012
A Birr man has been appointed to the board of the cross-border body, InterTradeIreland. Ray Hayden's appointment was ap...
Thursday, 26 January 2012
Nenagh Arts Centre is screening the controversial boxing documentary 'Knuckle' on Thursday 2nd February.The film charts ...
Thursday, 26 January 2012
TWO hundred and thirty new residential and commercial buildings were identified in Offaly in 2011, according to figures ...
Thursday, 19 January 2012
Birr's well known Postman John Kirwan delivered the most precious package he has ever handled last week, when he success...
Thursday, 19 January 2012
OFFALY man Noel Molloy, who is the Project Director at Harcourt Construction, is currently overseeing the construction o...
Thursday, 19 January 2012
About 20 employees working in the Ulster Bank branches in Ferbane and Tullamore are currently fearful for their jobs fol...
Thursday, 19 January 2012
EDUCATION cuts could rip the heart out of rural Offaly, it was claimed this week. Small schools in the county could be...
Thursday, 12 January 2012
BIRR'S impressive new Camcor River Walk was officially opened to the public this week, adding an exciting new feature to...
Thursday, 12 January 2012
MARGARET Loughnane from Birr gracefully reached a milestone very few people are lucky enough to ever come even close to ...
Thursday, 12 January 2012
Birr Town Council decided to reduce its retailing Rates by one percent when it agreed its budget during its monthly meet...
Thursday, 12 January 2012
MOST towns and villages experience a sense of depression when the Christmas festivities are over and the bright lights a...
Thursday, 5 January 2012
CLLR DENIS SHIELS. Cllr Denis Sheils from Birr Town Council said he doesn't make any resolutions and then he is never d...
Thursday, 5 January 2012
Fr John Molloy from Terryglass is working on the missions in a parish in Ecuador and in his latest update from there ref...
Thursday, 5 January 2012
Birr Theatre & Arts Centre is delighted to begin 2012 with a dynamic range of events over the next few weeks. Exhibiting...
Thursday, 5 January 2012
Offaly CCE held their AGM in Rahan recently. Here a very busy and successful year was reviewed. Some of the main highlig...
Thursday, 29 December 2011
IT is a rare sight in Ireland to see a woman commanding a large articulated truck, however Emma Bailey from Birr drives ...
Thursday, 29 December 2011
ST. BRENDAN'S Community School, Birr, officially launched their school bank recently. The event was attended by Marcella...
Thursday, 29 December 2011
It was a sad day in Borrisokane on Thursday last as the doors of the local Courthouse closed forever, bringing to an end...
Thursday, 29 December 2011
A number of local groups involved in animal care and welfare services are to receive funding from payments totalling ...
Thursday, 22 December 2011
A BENEFIT night has been arranged to offset the medical expenses of a former Offaly footballer who suffered a major stro...
Thursday, 22 December 2011
WHEN the mother of 12-year-old Niamh Mahon from the Elms in Spollenstown, heard that Jedward were helping to make dreams...
Thursday, 22 December 2011
Services Will Be Hit! OFFALY County County will slash its budget by €4.2 million next year in a bid to balance ...
Thursday, 22 December 2011
A 30-year-old Indian woman, who was working as a nurse in Shinrone, died last weekend when the car in which she was trav...
Thursday, 15 December 2011
SPEAKING to a crowd of over 150 farmers at AGM of Offaly IFA in Tullamore, IFA President John Byran said that the propos...
Thursday, 15 December 2011
A stunning statue, hand-carved into the trunk of an 80-year-old chestnut tree in Banagher's town centre, was unveiled as...
Thursday, 15 December 2011
Five dogs were stolen from an animal sanctuary in Portumna last Saturday, after thieves ransacked the facility. The Galw...
Thursday, 15 December 2011
The Uibh Fhaili chapter of Business Network International ran a very successful finale to their well publicised BNI Drag...
Thursday, 8 December 2011
After a year of zealously formulating and filming a large collection of short films and animations over the last year, O...
Thursday, 8 December 2011
'I personally have no issue or concerns with the facilities provided to me as a Judge in this Court', stated Judge Eliza...
Thursday, 8 December 2011
For only the second time since Roscrea People of the Year Awards began, a native of the town is to be honoured with a Ro...
Thursday, 8 December 2011
The HSE announced this week that it is drastically reducing the opening hours of MIDOC in Birr and is closing down the M...
Thursday, 1 December 2011
'Joseph And His Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat' was brought to life by the students of St Brendan's Community School, Bir...
Thursday, 1 December 2011
Louise Burke from Glenbeha, Roscrea and a student at Ursuline Convent Thurles, won the senior section in the Concern Wor...
Thursday, 1 December 2011
Following the hugely unpopular decision last week to permanently close Birr Circuit Court, thus ending 400 centuries of ...
Thursday, 1 December 2011
A large turnout is anticipated at a silent protest outside Roscrea Courthouse on this Thursday morning at 10a.m. to obje...
